How to add Background Music

[Velociraptor]

Hi,

I need help with adding music to my forum.
I need the music to be played nonstop and auto-play.

Right now, I uploaded the music to a free hosting site and use them embedded code in global header. The problem is, I still need to manually click play button.

And the embedded code I was using is like this (in case anyone have better than this one):
Note: I removed the hosting URL into [REMOVED URL]

<script type="text/javascript">var tsh="streams23";var tss="[Removed URL]/282560_Mythic_stream.m4a";var tsf="[Removed URL]/play/323832353630/mythic-wav";var tscd="ffffff";var tscf="000000";var tscb="ffffff";var tscl="000000";var tspw=270;var tspa=false;var tspv=80;var tspb = 1;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="[Removed URL]/files/embed.js"></script>

Thanks in advance.

[David Clark]

Hey Velociraptor,

It should be possible to do this, but I should warn you that historically, music on web pages that starts automatically and cannot be stopped/disabled has pretty much been proven to drive away certain users. It's universally considered to be a web design faux pas - you sure you wanted it that way?

[Velociraptor]

Yes, that would be great

My forum is just guides of an online game.

[David Clark]

I should be able to help with this later today.

[David Clark]

Hey again Velociraptor,

This page has some helpful information concerning playing audio on a web page. For music that starts automatically I recommend the <object> tag with a width and height of 0, like so:

<object height="0" width="0" data="URL TO MUSIC FILE.mp3"></object>

[David Clark]

It can be if you put the code into just the single board's header, jrryan, but that would also play it in threads in that board. If you wanted it to play only on one board and only on the thread list level, you'd have to enclose it within an {if} statement in your board list template.

[Velociraptor]

Thanks David Clark, the script works great.

Unfortunately, I didn't realize finding a free hosting site with actual .swf/.mp3/.wav as the extension in the link is the hardest part.

Trying to use one like this (pasting it as the Data URL) will direct people to that website
Seems only picture hosting sites that still provide direct file access (the .JPG).

So I still can use uploaded music/swf like this one.

Thanks for the great help